Happy to give you what I know about using hinge for hookups or is it strictly for relationships. In practice, using hinge lives or dies on the caution people forget.
Two people can have opposite results with using hinge purely because of keeping things private.
Concretely, for using hinge:
- give it two weeks before deciding anything about using hinge
- set aside a couple of weekends before deciding anything about using hinge
- stay on the platform for the first few exchanges before you judge using hinge
- allow two weeks before deciding anything about using hinge
The honest tradeoff with using hinge is the trust question against convenience. Whether there is anyone nearby matters more for using hinge than any feature list. That is roughly where I landed on using hinge for hookups or is it strictly for relationships.